Brave Leo: Make Your Documentation Discoverable by AI
AI Can't Find Your Documentation on Brave Leo? Here's the step-by-step fix — the causes, the exact solution, and how to prevent it long-term.
Brave Leo Context
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Focus on privacy-respecting content practices
Create content targeting security-conscious professionals
Why This Problem Matters
Users ask AI for help with your product but it can't find or cite your documentation. Get your docs into AI knowledge.
AI gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report AI couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Why This Happens in Brave Leo
Brave Leo uses BraveBot to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure Brave Leo's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Brave Leo can understand.
Signs You Have This Problem in Brave Leo
Brave Leo gives generic answers instead of citing your docs
Users report Brave Leo couldn't help them with your product
Technical questions get wrong or incomplete answers
Competitor documentation gets cited instead of yours
How to Fix This in Brave Leo
Follow these Brave Leo-specific solutions:
Make documentation publicly accessible without login
Publish docs as HTML pages, not just PDFs or apps
Implement proper heading hierarchy in docs
Link documentation prominently from your main site
Add TechArticle and HowTo schema to doc pages
Create an llms.txt file pointing to key documentation
Brave Leo Technical Details
Crawler Name
BraveBot
User Agent
BraveBot
Required robots.txt configuration:
User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /Prevent This Problem in Brave Leo
Design documentation for both humans and Brave Leo
Test Brave Leo's ability to answer questions from your docs
Maintain clear documentation structure
Monitor documentation crawling in server logs
Helpful Resources
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does ai can't find your documentation happen in Brave Leo?
Brave Leo uses BraveBot to discover and index content. Documentation behind authentication or paywalls. To fix this, you need to ensure Brave Leo's crawler can access your content and that your pages are structured in a way Brave Leo can understand.
What is the first fix to prioritize in Brave Leo?
Make documentation publicly accessible without login